This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Councilman Huizar might also want to take note of the CRA Adelante Project Area Committee that is schedule for later in the evening. This would be a great time to discuss how the CASA 0101 Theater Group was awarded a $150,000 No-Bid Contract for "community outreach". This one year deal includes "$5,000 to pay for a table at a CASA 0101 Fundraising event".
In addition, "$5,000 is given to CASA 0101 for the privilege of having a booth at a Christmas Event". Santa indeeds brings good tidings to a "connected non-profit" in Boyle Heights. And lastly, lets not forget the lucky three who will each get 750 x $30 per hour to spread the CASA 0101/CRA message for the course of the contract, for a grand total of $67,500.

Councilman Huizar may not know CRA city business but he sures know how to show monetary love to his favorite "connected non-profits".

¿se hacen pendejos o son pendejos? Please correct me if I'm wrong in assuming that our local city government has found a way to keep money in the city, away from our State's broom, but rather in the control of a city created non-profit; what's the problem? Would you rather have CRA return the to the State and not have a single cent spent locally? Oh wait, I forgot, no one trust Huizar. Let's blame him for all our problems and put him inane same category as Rizzo.

If you had bothered to check the report (Dated 11-18-10) by clicking on the link you would have noticed that this project pre-dates Jerry Brown's announcement in January to kill CRAs.

Nice try in re-writing history.

This is a government give-away to special interest without any open bid process.

Under your view, where is Huizar's plan to protect the other $2.5 million dollars

Page 5 of the report says, "Following the approval of this Project, $2,513,200 of $3,177,400 will remain for Economic Development Opportunities."

What's the problem you ask?

1.) No such plan to protect this money, just favoritism without competition.

2.) If he had a plan, he'd protect all $2.5 million and clearly he doesn't and I hear he stumbled on the CRA question the other night in Glasell Park.

You should read the documents before you purport to represent you know what you are talking about.

For example, on page 9 this report was part of Agenda Review on November 2, 2010 and consequently it was created before the November elections if it was to be reviewed on election day for placement on the CRA Board Agenda on November 18, 2010.

So, no way this is a reaction to Gov. Brown. This is just another example of bad government practices.

Here is the link if you want to actually know what is going on in the CRA.

Oh, in regards to the transfer to Casa; what's the problem? He supports the arts. What other non profit with an art emphasis, located along first street, and in the community for the last 11 years is there to compete with Casa? Wait a minute, he went to school with a Casa board of director member...something smells fishy! That's right! The fishy smell is coming from between your legs or upper lip :-)

Document everything. Sit down every night and write down what you've seen and heard that day. Try to write down numbers and figures from certain situations. Keep track of names, relationships, and the work hierarchy. And, assuming you're in the US, if you live in a state that isn't on this list, you live in a "one-party notification state;" that means that you are legally allowed to record conversations you have with any other party without telling them you're doing so. If you're in a one-party notification state, you may consider discreetly recording your phone calls and even personal conversations you have with other people.

Guidestar.org is another resource you can use to possibly strengthen your case or uncover further fraud--check out the organization's 990 forms and see if what they're filing (IF they're filing) matches the bank account ledgers.

Thanks to my AG's office' advice, I contacted the IRS and got FOIA's on the non-profit(s) I was looking at.

I quietly passed the (damning) info garnered to my city's Dept Of Investigations. A few months into that investigation, the feds took over.

People went to JAIL. No one ever knew it was me that started the ball rolling...

Outreach contracts are code for politcal payback. Victor Griego at Diverse Strategies made a whole career out of this. You get a $100,000 contract and you pay your $8 and hour staffer to put together a half hour "outreach flyer". It's the oldest trick in the political books.